Tea, dammit

[ksmith]

Can anyone out there rec an herb tea that promotes relaxation? I'm currently working my way through a box of Celestial Seasonings "Tension Tamer", which contains ginger, chamomile, and licorice, among other things. One bag in 8 oz tastes like hot water. I've got a two-bagger steeping at the moment.

Nothing illegal, thanks, but if it requires harvesting from hillsides by the light of a gibbous moon, I'd probably go for it. It's reached that point.

Maybe I should just spring for regular massages...

Comments

[torrilin.livejournal.com]

Funny. That stuff *does* knock me out. It's a lot like handing my body a slug of tryptophan.

As far as teas go, I'm no help. I can drink strong black tea for hours and feel relaxed and soothed. Then I go take a nap. Apparently, this is an abnormal reaction.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Nope. I drink my white and green teas and either wake up or relax--whatever I need them to do, they do. Not sure how that works.

I highly recommend massage. I got rid of crippling migraines through massage.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

My last massage was--damn--during Torcon. The hotel had a spa, and I sprang for the works, which included an hour-long massage. At about the halfway point, the masseuse, a very nice lady named Gilberte, told me that she wasn't going to be able to get to my legs because she'd been working on my back and shoulders for a good 15 minutes and hadn't even begun to get them loosened. "You're not very nice to yourself, are you?" she asked as she *leaned* into my left shoulder blade.

I should probably look into massage...

[windrose.livejournal.com]

It's certainly helped me. I had one session with the massage therapist, and it was like the last two months of erratic sleeping patterns never happened. I'm able to get to bed at a reasonable hour, and actual feel refreshed when I wake up.

[naomikritzer]

Well, by "knock somebody out" I was thinking in part of my reaction to Ambien, which rendered me absolutely nonfunctional. I could never take it at home, because if there were a fire, I would be unable to get myself out of the house. (It also gave me hallucinations. That is one drug I'm not planning to take again.)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I've heard horror stories about Ambien.

FWIW, I think that double dose of Tension Tamer did something. I couldn't keep my eyes open past midnight, and I slept through the night. Got up around my usual time. I'm still a little tired, but the weather could be partially to blame. It's muggy and overcast and we're expecting rain later today.